Despite it all, were close to record highs. Free speech is in the news. Nba commissioner, he stood up to china. They wanted the Houston Rockets general manager fired after he tweeted support for the hong kong protesters. Adam silver told them were not going to do that. Free speech item number two. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, he says hes not going to Police Political speech, and hes not going to ban Donald Trumps tweets, as Kamala Harris demanded. Big deal. Big show. Youre going to hear what the president had to say at his big rally last night. The brits, well, theyre on the brink. The brexit vote is hours away. And alec baldwin slams the demonization of wealth. What . Varney company, the very special friday edition, is about to begin. After decades of economic surrender, i have taken historic action to confront chinas rampant trading abuses and weve made great progress and our relationship with china is fantastic. But now were taking in billions of dollars. Theyve had the worst year the
Facing another grilling from lawmakers about the safety of the 737 max. Risks facing the stock Halftime Report starts right now. All right. Good to have you with us on this wednesday from post 9. Our Investment Committee here. Lets begin with the markets the count down to the fed. Investors expecting a cut, but it is the what comes next that matters most of all. And for that we bring in Steve Liesman, who is at the fed today. Thats what everybody wants to know, right . Everybody knows a cut is coming. Its whats next. What i think will happen is powell and the committee will carve out flexibility to react more to the data i think the issue, the way that powell probably not going to put it this way, but simply to understand it is we may cut next time we may not cut next time but were definitely not going to cut were not definitely going to cut is a good way to think about it in other words, the market is building in automatic cuts from meeting to meeting and i think powell will want to b
Streaming service. Lets look at futures this morning. Some Economic Data better than expected today thats the picture on fed day. Dow opens higher by 34 s p by 2. 5 nasdaq by 17 road map this morning starts with right there, the futures, pointing to higher open after that stronger than forecast Economic Data. Investors staying cautious ahead of the fed record highs within striking distance again plus, shares of General Electric popping after an earnings beat the company raising its 2019 cash flow forecast and streaming wars at t set to challenge netflix, apple and disney, unveiling details for its upcoming hcupcome upcoming hbo max Service David talks with warner media Ceo John Stankey and thats coming up in the next hour as we said, looking forward to that big interview the markets, the fed, fed day. The data was better than expected this morning. Still confirms were slowing, so the fed will be cutting, right the fed raised too much it is just a fact. Jay powell overdid it. The econom
Hurry and affects. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport, with katie shanahan. The Rugby World Cup aims and defeats, they have been beaten by a0 points against new zealand to win the bronze medal. That was also the head coach last game in charge of wales. Thanks katie, and stav has all the weather thanks, stav. Here is a hint of what we are expecting a better week and particularly in southern parts of the country it can be pretty wild and beat i will have all of the details coming up. Also coming up, campaigners call for a clamp down on fireworks being let off in residential areas at all hours. Hello everyone, this is afternoon live. Nigel farage has said his brexit party will contest every seat in england, wales and scotland in next months election, unless borisjohnson drops his deal with the eu and signs up to a leave alliance. Mr farage said the Prime Ministers Withdrawal Agreement with the eu is simply not brexit. the brexit party say they have 500 candidates ready to fight the
[laughter] maria big show this morning on deck this morning, ohio congressman and member of the house intel and ways and Means Committee member brad is here on yesterdays hearing, darrell issa joining us on new run fur the house, Intel Committee devin nunes on the whistleblower come print and Philadelphia Federal Reserve complaint patrick harper, on Economic Data, backdrop on the economy, we will talk about rates as well, dont miss a moment of it. Top story this hour, whistleblower hearing, Joseph Mcguire sealed question from lawmakers yesterday, intel chief showing some support for whistleblower also had warning for democrats Going Forward, watch. Theres an allegation of a coverup, im sure an investigation and before this committee might disprove that right now all we have is allegation from secondhand from a whistleblower. Maria now weve got the media, New York Times say they know who it is but the republicans want to know who is the whistleblower, maybe hes from the cia, whats your